(( OOC:

A'ight, I like to get this ooc stuff over as quickly as possible, so we'll quickly cover the setting and then the rules and then onward to roleplay!

SETTING
This roleplay takes place in the real world, sort of. Well maybe I should just tell you what it's all about and then you'll get it.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be stuck in a dream? Because that is basically what is going on in this roleplay. Its kind of hard to explain so I'll give an example.
Character A falls asleep, he's watched one two many 'Star Trek: Enterprise' episodes and is dreaming about piloting a starship through space.
Meanwhile Character B falls asleep, she has a quirky dream about her whole homedown being empty except for her and a weird monkey.
And Character C falls asleep, he dreams he can fly and is having ag reat time in a weird fantasy world.
It dawns on the characters that they've been dreaming a long time.
It further dawns on the characters that they are, in fact, dreaming.
About this time Character A's spacecraft crash lands and kills Character B's monkey, who runs off screaming and clings to the back of character C, pulling them down on character A's head.
About this time they realise that their dreams are linked.

Now that was just an example, but hopefully you get the point. I'm thinking to wake up characters are gonna have to team up and find whatever is trapping them in the dream world. (("Don't Dream In Color" further defines the 'dream world'. Writ by yours truly))

Now, since this takes place in dreams, your character is whatever they were dreaming they were. Lets have some fun with this!


RULES
No god-moding, no powerplaying
No R-rated content (nudity, sexual scenes or innuendo, heavy cursing or gore. YES, this means 'dirty dreams' are OUTLAWED!)
No homosexual (slash) content (K, I've been yapped up one side and down the other over this a lot of times. If you've got a problem, PM me, or find another roleplay that DOES allow it and join that)
Lets try to keep it at a 'literate' level (By that I mean your post should describe everything (thus providing information on everything) so that we're all in the know as to what is happening. Oh, and commas, periods and the lot aren't for decoration, loves.)
Don't ask to join
Any questions, comments, or crude remarks can be transferred to me through PM.
Lists are NOT acceptible

And here we goooo!)))

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Bright colors swam before Leanne's eyes. Reefs of coral and gorgeous fish. She was swimming, underwater, she had been for a long time, and she hadn't gone up for breath yet. Apparently she could breathe down here. Laughing, she cut a corkscrew under a loop of corals, anemone, and other colorful, vibrant bits of sea life she coudlnt' identify. Maybe she'd dreamed them up, it was quite possible, she'd concluded a while ago that she was dreaming. And as she loved swimming without the burden of SCUBA equipemnt or having to go up for air, she was going to enjoy this as long as it lasted.
She seemed to be in some kind of bay. Large logs and a half a wrecked ship lay strewn about amid the reefs, and schools of bright fish eyed her curiously, they didn't seem to mind her presence, another plus.
Suddenly tired, Leanne - just 'Lee' to her friends - slowed her pace and sat down on a brown-green log. "There's a log in a hole in thhe bottom of the sea..." she sang to herself, noting in the back fo her mind that her words didn't have the wavey echo she usually got when she made sounds underwater. Odd.
She continued the song, humming as she looked about. Hadn't gotten to epxlore the ship yet, maybe she'd dot hat before she woke up. "There's a hole, there's a hole, there's a hole in the bottom of the sea....Hey!" Now there was an idea, maybe this was the bottom fo the sea. That'd be interesting, wouldn't it?
Jumping to her feet, she started swimming in a tight upward spiral towards the surface, if there was any surface. Her clothes trailed behind her. The outfit she'd dreamed up for herself was...well, nto something she could get away with wearing in the real world. It was a long blue shirt with long sleeves, tied around the middle with some sort of silver cord. She was wearing pants underneath, but no shoes.
The whole outfit was light, and didn't interfere with her swimming in any way, though she sometimes had to push her thick, loose brown hair out of the way.
Several minutes later she broke surface. If she'd thought anything above the water would be uninteresting, she was undoubtedly mistaken.
"Woah...." Green eyes gleamed with excitement. This dream had better last, her 'things to do before I wake up' list had just grown about five pages.

((I'll leave whatever it is Leanne sees on the surface to whomever wishes to dream it up, pun intended ))

Eliza was walking in a quiet meadow, smiling to herself after a great fight. She had figured out that she was dreaming just before she had been ambused by some weirdo. She was having one of her usual fighting dreams again, this time it seemed semarai themed. She had two katana's-one tied to each side, and could easily duel with both. Her clothes were a tad bit odd, and that is what made her realize she was in a dream. She was wearing her usual black tank top along with black pants, and combat like boots. What had caught her attention was her coat. It was long, down to her ankles, and also black, oddly her swords were actaually on the belt that tied her coat closed, instead of under. This didn't affect her fighting, so she quickly got used to it, also even though her whole outfit was black, she wasn't hot at all.
At the moment she was making her way to a body of water she had noticed ealier, even though this was a dream she found that she was extremely thirsty. As she walked she noticed that the flowers were different then they would be like in the real would, she doubted that she ever dreamed of such flowers. They were very beautiful, and smelled good also, her smile changed to one of a different kind of enjoyment. Suddenly, she heard a splasing noise, ans this brought her attention to the water again, in the minute or so that she had taken to admire the flowers, she had almost reached the shore. 'Wow, that was fast...'
She stopped five feet from the edge of the shore and survayed her new surroundings with her sharp grey eyes, seeminly out of nowhere a breeze started to blow her short light brown hair. Facing to the wind, she noticed some birds that were gull like flying in a circular pattern, curious she decided to see what the fuss was all about. She hadn't even noticed the girl that was in the water.....

This has got to be a dream... Rae thought, as he ran for his life. A horrible dream. When's that blasted alarm going to ring?

Rae jumped over a garbage can. He was running through an alleyway, now. But the good thing was that he could see, thanks to the moon over-heads. The brown haired boy had been running for what seemed like hours in an empty city scenary, jumping over various items, and even doing couple of flips in the air. But that wasn't the reason he believed that he was dreaming. It was the fact that there seemed to be a black dragon-like creature chasing him.

The dragon did not have wings. Rae was sure of that because if it could fly, it wouldn't waste its time chasing him on foot. He, himself, had looked back at it couple of times. Each time, he saw the glowing green eyes of the dragon, and the sharp-looking fangs. Rae was certain that it'll eat him the mintue it caught up. Of course, that was if it'll catch up.

Rae had been running for a long time, far longer than he'd like, and he had yet to trip. Every obstacles were passed with couple of jumps without a fatal mistake. Better yet, he had yet to run out of breath. If this was real life, he would've tripped, broken his leg, and become the dragon's midnight snack after the first five minutes. It wasn't that he wasn't fit - he was rather skinny for his age - it was the fact that he had no stamina. He thanked the moon that nothing bad had happened yet, and mostly for not being the dragon chowder. Although it was said that you couldn't feel anything in dreams, Rae was sure dieing would be a different thing.

Suddenly, his hazel eyes noticed something strange. After running in the midnight area of the empty city, his eyes had gotten used to the dark. Now, he saw something unusal. It was the sun. Worse yet, there were flowers in his path, now. Great.... I'm allergic to pollen!

Rae decided to hold his breath, seeing that he had never ran out of it in the first place. And continued to run. It was around here he realized that there was a vast body of water in front of him. Awe took the brown-head as he still continued to run. Rae glanced slightly back and noticed that the dragon was no longer there.

Strange. I was sure it'll catch me and-

His thoughts were interrupted when the dragon landed on top of him, its right claw holding him to the ground. The dragon snarled, and Rae smelt its rotten breath. The dragon's red tongue flickered in the air, and the hazel-eyed boy gulped. He was going to be eaten, he was sure of it.

Somebody please help me!

Leanne looked around, there seemed to be a large city bordering one part of the bay, the rest was an open field, bordered with green woods. It was midnight, yet the moon was sufficiently bright enough that it seemed as day below the water. Someohw, she didn't feel cold. Looking around, she thought she saw a figure stop by the edge of the lake, she wondered if she ougth to approach it when...

Somebody please help me!

She blinked, looking around. Nobody near enough for her to hear such a thing, and it seemed to come from everywhere at once, vaguely echo-y. 'so....I have telepathy now?' she thought to herself 'cool'

'Don't worry, I'm coming!' she thought, hoping it would be directed at whoever had called out. she started swimming towards the city, making a decidedly slow pace until she started using front crawl. And then she shot through the water like a fish. Crawling up onto a cluttered shore. Great...now where to go? She turned around, that other figure was still by the water's edge. Unsure waht else to do she waved, "Hello?" she called loudly

Somebody please help me!

Eliza heard this just as she reached the spot where the birds were flying around. Here there seemed to be the start of a city, she looked around trying to figure out where the voice came from when she heard some one say "Hello?" This came from the water, she was sure of it, and she glanced over seeing a girl swimming out in the water. "Huh?" she said then she yelled "Hey! Did you hear that voice too?" There was no time for a answer however, as she heard a dragon roar. Surprised she looked towards the city, and there right on the outskirts was a dragon, and it was holding a person down. Seeing this she drew one of her swords and ran to where the dragon was. On closer inspection it was holding down a male, and she knew instantly that it was him who had yelled. Still running she went to the side of the dragon, it noticed her, and tried to chomp at her, but she jumped, twisting easily over it's neck, as she did this she swung her sword, hoping that it would slice through the scales of the dragon.
Landing in the sand, she also slashed at the leg that held the boy down, this would hopefully make it take it's foot off him.
((Wether this is working or not is up to Rae, since it is his dragon from his dream.))

((It's fine. I was actually hoping you'd do that. ))

Rae gaped as a femine body distracted the dragon. Then finally, she used an overly thin looking sword to slash at the dragon's leg. This gave him enough seconds to roll away. Wow, he thought, a super hot chick just saved my life and is fighting my nightmere. My kind of hero.

Of course, I'm not letting her have all the fun!

Rae jumped into action, standing across from the girl, the dragon sandwhiched between them, in his fighting stance. The dragon was currently busy with the girl. My turn! he thougt, knowing no one could hear it.

He brought his fingers to his lips and blew. No sound came out. He frowned. That was unusual. He was the only person in the whole school who knew how to whistle like that. And yet, in dreamland, it seemed that he was just as useless as any other flower he stood next to. He tried to curse, but, like before, no sound came out.

The brown-head gave up after couple of tries of speaking. It appeaered that he couldnt speak. Fine. Maybe that meant that he could fight?

Rae jumped, aiming for the dragon's back. He landed on it, only to find that the scale was just as sharp as the fangs had looked. Mentally cursing, he fell off of the dragon. He hadn't even bothered the dragon, and he had already scratched the front half of his body. Leave it to him to end up in a no-win situation. Even in dreamland.

Eliza was glad that the attack on the dragons leg had at least worked. The male seemed to be having some difuculty speaking, and he was having a problem fighting. Eliza twirled to the side, thanking her mother for forcing her to take ballet and gymastics classes, she was also thankful that her father had conviced her mother to let her take martial arts, he said it was for defensive reasons, but the truth was that Eliza had WANTED to take the classes. She had noticed the fighting stance the male had taken, and knew that he knew how to fight, but for some odd reason, it wasn't working. While dodging the dragons attacks she screamed "HEY! WE COULD USE SOME HELP HERE WATER GIRL!" she hoped the girl in the water could hear her, she didn't mean to affend her, it was just that she was having trouble fighting the dragon by herself. Then the worst happened the dragon took a big gulp of air, and Eliza could already feel the heat gathering inside of it's body. "Great! You just had to dream of a dragon that could breath fire!" it seemed to Eliza that the male and her dreams were now clashing, she was pretty sure that the fire part was her fault. As the dragon spit forth it's flame, she ran to where the male was, and picking him up, and throwing him over her shoulder, she ran towards the water, hoping that the dragon couldn't attack near the waters surface.

The heck?!

Rae was thrown completely off by the fact that his 'hero' just threw him over her shoulder and was running to what looked like water. And, yes, the dragon breathed fire. That seemed a bit odd, seeing that it never did it before, but then again, the girl wasn't here before either.

I don't think she realizes I'm bleeding over her. Rae thought as the girl continued to run towards the water. He was sliding off slightly, and he was hoping that she would put him down soon. It was rather embrassing, being carried by a girl like that. Then something fishy caught his eyes. Was that... a girl in the water?!

Of all the things I dream up....

((In future, lets keep from powerplaying, okay? Instead, ending on notes like "Went to throw him over her shoulder" or "Moved to grab him to put him over her shoulder" leave room for the person on the receiving end to decide if they can be lifted, if they push the other person away, if they roll with it, etcetera.))

"I would if I could, but I can't so I won't!" Lee had called when she was yelled at to help. She splashed out of the water, though, her long blue tunic-thing drying off amazingly fast. Handy though, she might have risked dream-hypothermia if it had stayed wet. She didn't have complete controll of this dream, she'd realised that a long time ago; trying to dream herself a more modern outfit hadn't worked, trying to dream the dragon away hadn't worked either. It seemed that she was stuck inside her dream, and it woudl run on as it had begun. She was in it, but she couldn't change it. She hurried across the narrow, rocky beach towards them as the girl who resembled something out of a weird anime show ran away from the dragon with the young man over her shoulder. She hadn't heard his thoughts again. Maybe it was just a hunch, before? She stared very hard at the brown-haired boy

Of all the things I dr-

she jumped. Okay, so, apparently looking directly at someone let her hear their thoughts. That could be inconvenient or helpful. She tried staring at the girl. More faint, and garbled, but then, his thoughts hadn't exactly been clear as a bell.

'So I dreamed myself as a telepathic amphibious girl in an outfit disturbingly similar to a more flowing zora tunic?' she thought to herself 'Well, coulda been worse, thats what I get for playing zelda games all day...'

((sorry, I'll keep that in mind, also wouldn't it be weird if we all knew each other in real life??-in the RP I mean.))

Eliza felt that the male was slipping, and could feel wetness spreading on her coat. She stopped running and placed the male down, just then noting the blood. She paled, she had never liked the sight of other people's blood. If this wasn't a dream, she probaly would've passed out. Instead she turned to the girl who had left the water, she looked like she came out of a Zelda game. "Hey, he's bleeding! What should we do?" she directed towards the surprisingly dry girl. Then as an afterthought, she said "My names Eliza, what's yours?"

"Lee, its only Leanne if I'm in trouble" she said, she hadn't stopped moving while the girl was talking adn they were close enough to converse without yelling, now "Put him down" She didn't think she'd dreamed herself with any healing-abilites, but she had some first-aid, knew what to do about a gash like this, anyway. She tried to avoid looking at both their heads; hearing thoughts, she realised, could give away some private contemplations, and knowing them would undoubtedly put her in an awkward position.

"Lee it is then...what do we do about the dragon now?" she pointed to where it stood, for some reason it hadn't made any move since she had picked up the male and ran away. It was still shooting fire about, as if it didn't know where they were at. 'Perhaps it can only go to a certain point past the city?' she thought to herself.

I'd say that we leave that grumpy ol' guy alone. But of course, seeing that I can't exactly talk.... Rae rubbed his head. He turned to the new girl, Lee, she had called herself. Is she shy? Why isn't she looking at us?

He shrugged. From the looks of it, she was trying to help him with his wound. Perhaps he should help? He took off his shirt, to reveal the wound. It wasn't as big as he had thought it'll be. In fact, it was bigger. His whole chest looked as if it had been skinned, just slightly so that the insides didn't fall out, but skinned nonetheless. His stomach churned at the sight. Ew... he thought, poking it. He flinched when his finger made contact with his wound, but realized with awe that it did not hurt. So they were right. You don't feel pain in dreams!

"I dunno" Lee said, dropping to her knees next to Rae and looking somewhat sickened at the bloody mess which had been made of Rae's chest. She swore under her breath, looking away. Okay, so, first things first, gotta clean it... she didnt' trust the water she'd just come out of - especially since there was a city on the edge of it - and there didn't seem to be any particular amount of dirt and such in it anyway. Gulping, she went to grab the shirt out of his hand and then stopped "Open air" she said, moving her hand away "is the best thing for it right now...but we shoudl try and stop the bleeding" she changed her mind and grabbed the shirt, pressing it against what seemed to be the main point of the bleeding, clenching her teeth. So much blood....

Eliza nodded, leaving the medical part to Lee, she seemed to know what she was doing. Not liking the sight of blood, she turned and watched the dragon as it spat flames around it. It also turned around in a full circle at some point, spuing its flame around as it did so. It looked to her as if it WAS fighting someone, except she couldn't see anything that would be worth fighting.
"A glitch." she said outloud without meaning to.

The strong light made Daniel blink. He pushed a white lock of hair out of his black eyes and squinted at the moon. This isn't how it's supposed to be! he thought, looking out over the meadow in front of him. In contrast to his normal dreams everything was bright and even cheerful to some extent. Looking over his shoulder at the forest he had left behind he was comforted to find that it looked the same: dark and dreary, with shadows swirling just out of sight. Slowly he floated out towards the figures near the lake. At least I still seem to be my usual dream-self, he concluded after examining white shirt, grey pants and bare feet, floating three inches above ground.

When he got closer to the group he noticed a dragon that seemed to be fighting a shadow of some sort. He stopped near the water's edge, watching the shadow swirl unharmed through the dragon's hot flame. A cruel smile formed on his pale face. That's no way to deal with such a shadow! You have to lure it in, he said to himself, memories of past dreams weaving themselves with the image of the present. Finally tearing his eyes from the spectacle he advanced towards the group, where someone seemed hurt. It would be something fun to watch since everything that got hurt in his dreams died soon after.

Eliza noticed out of the corner of eye that someone was GLIDING towards the threesome. She shifted her body so that she could see better, it was another male with white hair and dark eyes. Something about him gave Eliza chills, he seemed altogether....EVIL, if that made any sense. Eliza watched the male closely as he kept traveling towards the small group of people by the waters edge.

Huh. I wonder if this wound can kill me in real life. It wasn't the best topic to think of, but it was the first thing he thought of as Rae watched Lee trying to stop the blood. He ajusted her hand so that not much blood got on her hands. He felt guilty already for letting her help him like this, but to have her fingers dirtied with his blood! That was just dishonorable.

He heard Eliza mumbled something about a glitch, but didn't pay any heed. For a flicker caught his eyes. A white haired blob was coming near, he realized with a start. But seeing that he couldnt make any noise, he just blinked at the figure as it approached them.

Wow! Perhaps my imagination wasn't as bad as I thought it was!

Lee was preoccupied with stopping the blood, which she was somewhat succeeding in doing. There was so much on the wound that she didn't want to tie it up; it would just stick to the wound with dried blood, and open up again when the bandages came off. Open air. Eventually she noticed the other two staring at something, and looked up. A ghostly figure in pale clothes was gliding towards them out of the dark wood across the clearing. This wonderful world she'd dreamed herself into was fast turning into a nightmere. "VENDUI, MELLONAMIN" she called out to the approaching figure. Why she was speaking elvish now was anyones guess.

A breeze blew Daniel's chin length hair into his eyes. For a while he let it stay like that, watching the group between the strands while gliding closer to them. They were an odd bunch, not only because of their clothes but also because they didn't seem to fit together at all. And then there was the fact that they were all in vibrant color, in contrast to the gray pastel appearance things normally had in his dreams, as if they had come out of some age worn photo. This made the boy curious. It was as if someone has stolen his dream and twisted it to somehow fit the real world which gave him an odd feeling; he didn't know if he should be grateful for the cheery touch or upset because all the things that had made his dreams interesting and unique seemed to have been taken away. There was also the fact that as he got closer the feeling that these were real people grew stronger.

Finally Daniel decided to look on the bright side of things. When he was almost there the girl dressed in what seemed like a blue tunic said something he couldn't understand. It didn't sound like anything he had ever heard before. This made the white haired youth all the more curious. Carefully, he pushed the hair out of his eyes and smiled. Taking one hand out of his pockets he extended it towards the girl dressed in black since she seemed the only one not currently occupied.

"Hello! I'm Daniel. How do you do?" he said slowly, unsure that they would understand him. At the same time he smiled warmly and looked each of the three in the eye in turn.